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Israel’s Nuclear Weapons: The White House Factor

Jeremy Salt

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 was to have a profound and long-lasting effect on U.S. Middle East policy. The accession to power of Lyndon Baines Johnson put into the White House a man who regarded himself as Israel’s best ...

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The Evolution of Bashar al-Asad

David W. Lesch

A U.S. official recently commented to me that in his government office the analysts had determined Syria to be more “diabolical” than Iran because Syrian President Bashar al-Asad “is ten times smarter than [Iranian President] Ahmadinejad.” ...

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America’s Faltering Search for Peace in the Middle East: Openings for Others?

Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.)

You have asked me to speak to current American policies in the Middle East, with an emphasis on the prospects for peace in the Holy Land. You have further suggested that I touch on the ...

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Engaging the Muslim World

Leila Hudson

After nearly a decade of blogging on Middle Eastern politics, Juan Cole is the leading public-intellectual critic of U.S. policy in the region. Using new technology to burst out of the ivory tower, this historian of the Middle East has been able ...

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July 13, 2010

U.S. Policies Toward Israel and Iran: What are the Linkages?

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